AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, ISSUE 38 | MAY 2018 COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO ISSUE #38 Inside: Giords Jazz Select Trail: Circus Stroud Mila Harris-Mussi + John and Astrid Furnival | Near Future | Site Festival: Open Studios | Stroud Shakespeare Festival Cover image by Emilie Sandy Emilie image by Cover WHAT'S ON Live Music | Theatre | Comedy Dance | Classes | Workshops Book at the BoxIN O May ce Exhibitions | Meeting Rooms 01453 760900 www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk What's on May Wayne Hemmingway The Big Bad Wolf Kids Concert Thu 3 May | 8pm | Talks Sun 13 May | 3pm | Community With a career spanning four decades in the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra join forces design industry, Wayne Hemingway has a fair with young singers and narrator Lydia Kenny, few stories to tell about his rags-to-Red or in the fourth year of their successful children's Dead tale. concerts. Jive Dance Woody pines Fri 4 May | 8pm | Dance Thu 24 May | 7.30pm | Music Our monthly Jive Dances have a great Drawing liberally from the lost back alley atmosphere on a great dance fl oor. Dance the anthems and scratchy old 78’s of American roots night away to top swing and jive music music, whether country blues, jugband, hokum or hillbilly. Makers Family Fair The Importance of Being Sat 5 May | 10.30am - 3.30pm | Fair Earnest An exciting range of local makers and small Fri 25 May | 7.30pm | Theatre businesses. Discover clothing, art, furniture, One of the most cherished plays around the delicious treats and more! world, Split Second Productions present Oscar Wilde’s hilarious classic – performed by two men. Playing every part. Show of Hands Duo Tour The JP Brass Allstars – Part of Wed 9 May | 7.30pm | Music Stroud Jazz Dovetailing old songs with new, this is an Sat 26 May | 8pm | Music unmissable celebration of Steve Knightley and Big band classics, laced with a healthy dose of Phil Beer’s enduring impact on roots, acoustic Swing, Funk and a smattering of Blues will get and folk music. you on your feet, so dust o the dancing shoes and give your soul a treat. London Calling Subtrax presents: Sugar Hill Fri 11 May | 8pm | Music Gang The top UK Clash tribute band bring their with STROUD BLOCK PARTY sold-out UK tour to Stroud. Sun 27 May | 8pm | Clubnight The American hip hop group, known for bringing the genre its fi rst mainstream success with the smash hit Rapper’s Delight in 1979. Mind Body Spirit Show Keepy Uppy Sat 12 May | 10am – 4pm | Fair Mon 28 May | 11am & 2pm | Family Gain new insights into your well-being, your Keepy Uppy is a play for the 2018 life and the world around you. Learn how world cup year, for football fans, to keep your body healthy and your mind non-football fans, children and positive and clear of clutter. families. twitter.com/SubRoomsStroud facebook.com/Subrooms WHAT'S ON #38 | May 2018 IN May EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: Editor’s Note Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGNER Artwork and Design Welcome to the thirty eighth issue of Good On Paper – your Adam Hinks [email protected] free monthly guide to music concerts, art exhibitions, theatre productions, comedy shows, film screenings and literature ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER events in Stroud… goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ Well it seems Stroud’s Festival season has truly started! Turn the pages do discover what’s in store at this year’s Jazz Stroud, Site Festival Open Studios, Select Festival and newcomer PRINTED BY: Stroud Shakespeare Festival…You will also find listings for the Prince Albert Beer and Music Tewkesbury Printing Company Festival and Nailsworth Festival! Elsewhere we delve into some of Stroud’s most cherished musicians, artists and performers including Neil Arthur from Blancmange’s new project Near Future, a preview of influential artists John and Astrid Furnival’s forthcoming exhibition and we also catch up with Nell Gifford from Gifford’s Circus prior to their 2018 production ‘My Beautiful Circus’. SPONSORED BY: We are also extremely happy to announce that in July 2018 Good On Paper will be launching a brand new monthly magazine for children! 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Got two magazines to do now… Alex and Adam Chartered Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk FRONT COVER: Emilie Sandy CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Mike Flynn, Simon Woolley, Paul Harper, Rebecca Mills, Sarah Dixon, Lorna Davies and Matt Shinn CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHY: Emilie Sandy and James Styler CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATION: Mark Levy NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE: Daniel Sparkes, Paul Grellier, One Love Weekend on Nelson St., Grasscourt, The Achievers, Situationism Records, Stuart Butler 04 Music #38 | May 2018 Jazz Stroud By Mike Flynn I first discovered jazz in Stroud. It was in the second-hand record section of the original Trading Post... #38 | May 2018 Music 05 There were two LPs that caught my that frequent the many big city live musical situation they find themselves eye; one by guitarist Mike Stern called music spaces, and get a lot more in. I know I can put virtually anything in Time In Place, and a gatefold Miles people to hear just how brilliantly front of them and they will be able to Davis album, You’re Under Arrest, from energising and imaginative British make musical sense of it very quickly; his gritty 1980s funk-edged phase. jazz musicians are. Well now Jazz sometimes it feels James knows the Around age 17, I was also passed a Stroud is happening and that hope tune before he’s seen the chart or cassette of the first album by Bristol has become a reality. Stroud has heard it! We started playing at the saxophonist Andy Sheppard, which been nurturing a love of jazz via the also helped fuel my curiosity. Having SVA and the irrepressible enthusiasm taken up the bass guitar age 12, I soon of Neil Walker and his team. They’ve progressed from Level 42 to Weather put together a festival that truly Report and Stanley Clarke. In my reflects the youthful energy that’s early twenties I played my first jazz fuelling the current surge of interest gigs in Stroud at the Golden Fleece in jazz, as well as a programme that where I met a guitarist who I went on showcases some the UK’s finest jazz to play with in Oxford, also moving musicians. It’s also a programme that to the city in the late 1990s. My love links Stroud’s long-held love of dance of jazz and bass instantly connected grooves, with female saxophonist me to Oxford’s student jazz scene Nubya Garcia topping the bill on where a brilliant young undergraduate Saturday. Garcia’s infectious stage saxophonist by the name of Soweto presence and powerful sax tone are a Kinch was tearing it up at the weekly clarion call to the head and the hips, jam nights; we played a few gigs too at effortlessly combining the worlds of beginning of 2017. We did one or two the time. A couple of years later I got a spiritual jazz and Afrobeat with heady rehearsals, a few gigs then went into job in Brighton writing for a fledgling jazz improvisation. She’s also one the studio.” music website in the heady early days of the leading lights of a new wave It is true that jazz seems to be of the Internet and the dotcom boom, of female instrumentalists who are hitting a new stride with younger which connected me with the wider shaking up jazz’s male dominated people really embracing the music and music industry and would eventually history, and Jazz Stroud’s programme major record labels now signing UK necessitate a move to London just to also includes several female-led bands artists for the first time since the early keep pace with all that was going on. including neo-jazz-soul influenced 2000s. Ivo points out that the public singers Aisling Iris Quartet and Ruth are often short-changed by the usual Royall, saxophonist Kim Cypher and cultural gatekeepers when it comes The general public can handle more groups such as Feelgood Experiment, to how jazz is presented: “I think the Bahla, We Are Leif and Caravela. The media are deciding to be positive challenging music than a lot of industry current scene’s openness to electro about jazz, which is good. There is a people think is the case - they can grooves and beats can also be real problem with respect between the handle improvisation. In fact, I think heard via fizzing Cuban jazztronica media and the general public and it’s troupe Ariwo, the sample cut ups of an obvious thing to say but audiences people crave it. Anchorsong, wild layered jazz-dance must be respected. The general public of Mermaid Chunky or the mashed-up can handle more challenging music Ivo Neame soundscapes of trumpet/drums duo than a lot of industry people think is the Eyebrow. case – they can handle improvisation. The piano-led Sunday night In fact, I think people crave it. We headliners Ivo Neame Quartet, possess live in a world where everything is a distinctly English melodic sensibility, becoming more and more robotic which is hooked to a wider European and automated and people want a The dotcom bubble burst and I was outlook as well as unfettered, high- release from that and the chance to thrown into the world of freelancing intensity improvisations.